Talk:Braille

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Correction: It comes from this version of the English Wikipedia article. Griffinofwales (talk) 20:57, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Issues identified

We'll need to look at the following:

• Braille is not the only writing system (?) the blind use, can we at least mention other such systems
• Braille is an alphabetic script; Is braille also used for languages that do not use alphabetic writing systems, like Chinese? - If so, how would it be different?
• learning/teaching braille (inspire yourself from the Braille literacy section on EnWP)
• Braille can encode 64 characters. Chinese has many more, how is this problem solved?
• We don't need the whole alphabet in the article, can we extract it to some subpage (or at least put it into a collapsible box)?

I think not all these things are possible to do for GA, we should probably agree on what we want for GA. These are of course just general comments.--Eptalon (talk) 11:51, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

More things:

• There is an extension of Braille so more characters can be made. It uses 2x4 dots instead of 2x3; dot 7 is below dot 3, dot 8 below dot 6
• Mathematics:

  ${\frac {2\times 8+4\times 2}{4\times 3}}=2$

  is written as:

  $(2\times 8+4\times 2)/(4\times 3)=2$

  This makes it harder to see that the expression can be simplified (by dividing everything by 2)

• Writing music is similarly difficult.

Another problem is that the English language article does not cover such things.--Eptalon (talk) 15:06, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Math

How do people do math with Braille? 136.158.8.154 (talk) 02:06, 13 December 2022 (UTC)